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BREAKING: British prosecutors say they believe they have enough evidence to charge two Russian nationals over the poisoning of Sergei & Yulia #Skripal in Salisbury in March. Their names are Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov #skripalpoisoning
Photos of suspects - their names believed to be aliases. Police say they travelled to UK from Moscow on March 2nd, went to Salisbury on 3rd & 4th (day of attack) and returned to Moscow that evening. Minute traces of novichok were found in their London hotel room. #skripals
Police say a counterfeit perfume bottle (Nina Ricci “Premier Jour”) was used to apply the novichok to the Skripals’ front door. One woman, Dawn Sturgess, later died and her partner was hospitalized after handling the bottle #skripalpoisoning
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Suspects in #SkripalsCase tell ⁦@RT_com⁩ that they had nothing to do with the poisoning and they just went to Salisbury to visit the cathedral #Russia #skripal #skripalpoisoning rt.com/news/438350-pe…
“Of course, we went there to see Stonehenge, Old Sarum, but we couldn’t do it because there was muddy slush everywhere. The town was covered by this slush. We got wet, took the nearest train and came back [to London].”
Funny, because there doesn’t seem to be any “slush” visible in these photos... #Skripal
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British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe will get to see her daughter after more than 2 years in prison in #Iran ⁦@FreeNazanin⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-452875…
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1. ATlantic council's fellow Higging and @bellingcat created a new opus on Petrov and Bashirov, implying that they are members of GRU, Russian secret service. Lets look at "facts" they provided to prove these allegations.
2. Bellingcat implies that there is an alleged stamp on Alexander Petrov’s passport dossier:“Do not provide any information”and his handwritten name. All passport documents in Russia are typed,without exclusion. There is no point to duplicate the name on top.Real 1P form below
3. This conclusion Bellingcat supports with another EMPTY document
with a handwritten note on top stating that somebody recommended to make is confidential "совершенно секретно" "С.С."We have to BELIEVE that its Petrov's form. BTW,those words are always stamped, not handwritten.
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Hey @MSNBC, why is your network's "intelligence expert" siding with an RT & Sputnik pundit to attack people he doesn't like on Twitter? The RT/Sputnik pundit, Neil Clark, denies Russia's involvement in the Novichok poisoning of Sergei & Yulia Skripal.

Is this acceptable to you?
Regardless of your opinion of @LouiseBagshawe, how is this behavior acceptable from your supposed "expert", @MSNBC?

Sergei and Yulia Skripal were the victims of an assassination attempt by Russians using the Novichok nerve agent.

Why can't Malcolm Nance show some decency here?
Malcolm Nance frequently attacks people on Twitter. He claims to stand for the truth. Yet, he has used RT & Sputnik material to attack people in the past.

Today, he sides with a pundit who works for RT & Sputnik.

This isn't about truth. This is pettiness.

Your move, @MSNBC.
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#SalisburyAttack update: I'm confident what follows is a rational narrative based on available evidence. Which isn't much, TBH.
~Someone~ who was aware of a coming staged chemical attack in Syria ran a #FalseFlag Op to build support w/Skripal attack, & PM May flubbed it.
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⤴️#SalisburyAttack Scenario
— while at Mill pub in Salisbury on afternoon Mar 4th, someone spiked Sergei & Yulia Skripal's drinks w/liquid 3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate (aka BZ, Agent 15), a psychoactive incapacitating agent. It's odorless, tasteless, & DOESN'T hit instantly.
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⤴️#SalisburyAttack Scenario
— by 4PM, when the Skripal's were walking through the park, the BZ must have started hitting them. BZ, short for buzz, the effect reported by volunteers dosed w/it.
ps: not & powder & non-lethal & effective doses.
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The poison Novichok, used on a former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in South West England last week, was a chemical weapon produced by a 'highly secretive Soviet-era program to develop a new grade of undetectable nerve agents.' threadreaderapp.com/thread/9738657…
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The Russian ex-spy who along with his daughter was poisoned by a nerve agent in the U.K. may have been exposed to the neurotoxin through his car's ventilation system. Affecting 38 persons, medically. abcnews.go.com/amp/Internatio…
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Critically ill Russian national is 66yo Sergei Skripal, former intel colonel/double agent granted refuge in UK after a 2010 "spy swap" between US & Russia. He and a woman were apparently poisoned in/near Salisbury shopping center. bbc.in/2D2oj7X
Ex-Russian spy & daughter 'poisoned' in UK sparks fears of another Kremlin-backed hit. Investigators scrambling to identify the chemical used. Skripal feared for his life after his wife died in a car crash & his son was killed in a road incident.. thesun.co.uk/news/5733372/s…
UK warns Kremlin over poisoning of ex-spy Skripal & his daughter. Recalling Litvinenko murder, FM Johnson said UK was "in the lead across the world" in trying to counteract a "host of malign activity" by Russia.

Skripal's brother, son & wife have been killed in the last 2 year.
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Already indicted on multiple charges and facing the likelihood of superseding indictments, Rick Gates appears to be cooperating with special counsel Mueller in the #TrumpRussia investigation amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/01/23…
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